Richard Gayle points to this extraordinary video of the lyrebird which can imitate other birds but also cameras (standard and motor-drive), car alarms and chainsaws.
UPDATE: Chris Corrigan emailed me with a link to a moonwalking bird.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
Rohan Gunatillake has a good post challening the label of “retreat” to describe what people do when they form communities for silent reflection. As anyone who has gone to sit
Nice post by Sue Pelletier on culutural biases against introverts. As one of these I identified with her comment: Being a hard-core introvert myself I tend to get pretty drained
Douglas Rushkoff – Blog – CNN.com: Are Jobs Obsolete? "What we lack is not employment but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies and a
I was very sad to learn that John Ptak the husband of my friend Patti Digh, has been struck with cancer. Patti’s response to this, as to so many of
